Preliminary Task: Poster Remake

The first thing I did was, I looked for an image of the minions that was a look alike of the film poster. I pasted this image onto Photoshop and cleared the background using the magic wand.

Secondly, I copied the same image and rotated it to180 degrees and flipped it horizontally. I then went into the blending options and adjusted the opacity to really light so that the image looked like a shadow of the original picture.

Thirdly, I decided to write out the title of the film poster. To do this, I tried many different fonts that would look the same as the original one. I wasn’t able to find an exact copy however, I found the font ‘Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold’ that looked quite right. I did this for the entire four name ‘Meet Stuart, Kevin & Bob’ and I changed the color to Black. I had to adjust the size for these names as they were all in different sizes therefore I had to have different layers for different words.

Fourthly, I had to place the subheading ‘Illumination Presents’ below the minion image. To do this I found a look alike of the font in the original picture ‘Arial Rounded MT Bold’. I had to decrease the size of this and transform it so that the writing was stretched. I also had to change the color of the font to greyish/greenish. This wasn’t as difficult as I was able to use the Eyedropper tool to find out what color was used in the original image.

Next, I moved onto the title of the film poster, which was ‘Minions’. This was quite a difficult task to do, as I wasn’t able to find the right font for the title. Due to this, I used the Rectangle Marquee Tool to copy the title from the original and pasted it onto the remake. I changed the size of the title and placed it under the ‘Illumination Presents’ heading.

After this, I went onto typing the ‘Summer 2015’ heading where I used the Arial Black font and decreased the size. I had to make sure that I used caps lock to write this out as this stood out in the original film poster.

Next, I added the conventions at the bottom of the film poster, which included ‘In theatres and real 3D, Illumination presents, this film is not rated, copyright 2015 universal studios and the universal company logo’. For the logo, I had to search the logo up onto Google and then changed the overlay color on blending options. I also had to make sure that the size of the writing wasn’t too big as these were conventions that come at the bottom.